Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Bangalore - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 16 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description:

Forecasting Budgeting Strategy planning :

- Responsible for preparation of financial plans (LRP PLN LBE ACT Quarterly projections) submission in Global planning systems (BPC SAP) and Actuals Variance analysis vs Plan/forecast.

- Lead the financial planning & reporting processes including design of templates & processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.

- Timely address of queries from various stakeholders

- Analyze performance (tracking revenue & expenses regularly) and provide variance explanations and recommendations for operational efficiency and provide business counseling to relevant stakeholders with the objective of adding value to the business.

- Understand communicate and explain variance within the business. Identify root causes and follow up actions for each.

- Advise business teams on process-related matters that arise.

- Act as primary liaison with line of Asia consolidations teamto ensure accuracy and timeliness of information

Business Partnering:

Partner with India commercial leadership with supervision of Head Commercial Finance to drive commercial / financial objectives by leading affiliate or country-specific projects.

Create P&L statements and other reportson financial performance for executive management to review.

Preparation of monthly business review deck in collaboration with functional stakeholders

Leading finance on S&OP discussions for benchmark analysis & demand assumptions working with Supply Chain and commercial team.

Ad-hoc Projects Process Improvement and Expense Efficiency

To take leadership or to provide support towards any business or finance projects as they arise.

To drive excellence in FP&A outputs

To identify and drive continuous process improvement particularly around financial planning.

To identify and drive continuous process standardization and simplification to improve efficiency.

Job QUALIFICATIONS (MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS):

The requirements described in this section are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Education and Experience

A minimum of 3-5 years progressive working experience 2 years should be relevant FP&A experience in a pharmaceuticalIndustry.

Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a range of culturally and functionally diverse people.

Education:Chartered Accountant

Computer literacy

Experience in using SAP S4 HANA

Experience in system planning tools such as BPC/TM1 etc

Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools

Language literacy

English (Oral and written)

Essential Skills Experience and Competencies(includes Licenses Credentials) :

Effectively manage the engagement and collaboration of the team to achieve a common goal

Strong commercial analytical skill strategy thinking financial analysis and finance modelling skill

Agile: could react quickly to requests in a short deadline and able to deliver with limited information or resources

Process improvements & simplification

Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively influence people

Previous FP&A roles in pharmaceutical manufacturing strongly preferred.

Previous Cost Accounting experience preferred.

Bachelor degree in Accounting Finance or Economics Required.

Required Skills:

Financial PlanningForecastingBudgetingStrategic PlanningP&L statementsS&OP discussions for benchmark analysisBusiness Analysis Planning & Monitoring

Job Description: Forecasting Budgeting Strategy planning : - Responsible for preparation of financial plans (LRP PLN LBE ACT Quarterly projections) submission in Global planning systems (BPC SAP) and Actuals Variance analysis vs Plan/forecast. - Lead the financial planning & reporting processes i...